Cloth; Used. Good. Dust Jacket: None. Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton. Scribner s, 1948. Political Fiction. Alan Paton s impassioned novel about a black man s country under white man s law is a work of searing beauty. Cry, the Beloved Country, is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: Fine. Damned by Chuck Palahniuk. First Edition First Printing. Bangsian Fantasy. The newest Palahniuk novel concerns Madison, a thirteen year old girl who finds herself in Hell, unsure of why she will be there for all eternity, but tries to make the best of it. The author described the…
Cloth; Used. Fine. Dust Jacket: As New. Dance of the Happy Shades: and Other Stories by Alice Munro. First Edition First Printing. Short Stories. Dance of the Happy Shades , the title story, is narrated by a teenage girl whose piano teacher, Miss Marsalles, is hosting a piano recital performed by her students and simply…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles. First Edition First Printing. Fiction Literature. “Dear American Airlines,” Jonathan Miles’s fine first novel, takes the form of a letter to the titular air carrier, which has stranded Benjamin R. Ford, the book’s middle-aged protagonist, in O’Hare Airport on the way…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Dear Life: Stories by Alice Munro. First Edition First Printing. Short Stories. Munro focuses on every aspect of our ordinary existence and makes it seem as extraordinary as it actually is, as in the story Gravel, where in the middle of a seemingly mundane family, a young…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Deception by Denise Mina. First Edition First Printing. Mystery Thriller. Denise Mina s Garnethill Trilogy won rave reviews in both the UK and the U.S. Her fiction debut, Garnethill, won the John Creasey Memorial prize for best first crime novel.- Mina has already won comparisons to some…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee. First Edition First Printing. Historical Fiction. Desirable Daughters, a 2002 novel by American Indian writer Bharati Mukherjee, tells the story of three sisters as they find their very different paths in life. It uses autobiographical elements to explore the South Asian immigrant…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: Fine. Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje. First Edition First Printing. Fiction Literature. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence — of both hand and heart — that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from the city of San…
Cloth; Used. Fine. Dust Jacket: Very Good. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, Modern Library, 1958. Historical Fiction. In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Boris Pasternak’s masterpiece brings to life the drama and immensity of the Russian Revolution through the story of the gifted physician-poet, Zhivago; the revolutionary, Strelnikov; and Lara, the passionate woman…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead. First Edition First Printing. Fiction Literature. The year is 1916. The enemy, Pancho Villa, is elusive. Terrain is unforgiving. Through the mountains and across the long dry stretches of Mexico, Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced horse…
Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: As New. Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul. First U.S. Edition First Printing. Fiction Literature. Authors First Novel. Fireflies tells the story of Trinidad s most venerated Hindu family, the Khojas. Rigidly orthodox, presiding over acres of ill-kept sugarcane and hoards of jewellery enthusiastically guarded by old Mrs. Khoja, they seem…